[oak perl] State of the pm: February 1, 2003
George Woolley
george at metaart.org
Sat Feb 1 19:16:06 CST 2003
State of the pm
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Affiliations
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O'Reilly User Group Program
got 6 books/products: as gift, to 6 different people
books reviewed: 2
banner opportunities taken: 2
Perl Mongers
Listings
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Website References:
Ecovillage (on calendar)
Google Directory
Monterey.pm (link to our related groups list)
Perl Mongers North American List
San Francisco.pm (on related groups list)
Earlier we requested listings with:
Berkeley.pm
Linux Mafia
SiliconValley.pm
The following don't have listings for related groups:
Sonoma.pm
Search Engine Listings:
Try +Oakland +"Perl Mongers".
I tried (2003-02-01) on the 6 top search engines
per my most recent evaluation
(i.e. on Google, AOL Search, Excite, Teoma and Yahoo, Alta Vista):
All 6 had either our site or the PM link to it
in one of the first 2 positions.
Mailing Lists
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Oakland.pm mailing list subscribers: 17 (as of 2003-01-30)
Oakland.pm messages:
November 106
December 99
January 54
PBML mailing list subscribers: 9 (as of 2003-01-30)
PBML messages:
(all messages lost, I believe)
December 39 (many messages lost, I believe)
January 15
Meetings
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monthly meeting attendees:
November 3
December 9
January 8
regular meeting time: 2nd Tuesday at 7:30pm
regular meeting place: not yet determined.
places we've tried:
#1 Coffee Mill (not open)
#2 George Woolley's (too small)
#3 Village Restaurant (workable)**
#4 Arden Schaeffer's (not yet tried)**
places considered and rejected: 5 (that I know of)
under consideration: see **
status: still looking
February Meeting Plans:
talk by: Dan Meriwether
invitations out for speakers: 2
Website
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reorganized a fair amount recently.
The Home Page includes sections on:
what the Club is at all
the next meeting
* acknowledgements
* contact info
There are separate pages on:
* related groups
* members (went from 2 to 8 profiles since last meeting)
There are separate directories for:
* directions
* mailinglists
* meetings
* reviews (now have 2 book reviews, had 0 before)
and also for
our O'Reilly User Group affiliation (including newsletters)
Finally
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Comments? Corrections?
-- George
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